The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-19
VOL. 20.
THE THIRD WATCH
TIE TIME WHEN CRIMINALS DO
THEIR WORST.

Rev. DIR. TalmaGe Exhorts His Hearers
to Give Money to the Poor Rather
than Tracts-Gamblers the Most Heart
less of All Evil Doors.
BROOKLYN, May 1j.-At the tabernacle this
morning there were the same great throngs of
people as usual, overlooking the main audi
ence room into the corridors, and from the
corridors into the street. This, the largest
church in America, is more and more made
quate TO hold the people, as the years 60 by
The pastor, the Rev. L. De Witt Talmage,
d D., tool, for his text this morning: ''Watch-
man, what of the night.' Isaiah xxi,2 He
said:
When night came down on Babylon,
Nineyeh, and Jerusalem, they Eeeded care
full watching, otherwise the incendiary's
torch might have been thrust into the very
heart of the metropolitan splendor; or enemies,
marching from the hills, might have forced
the gates All night long, on top of the wall
and in front of the gates, might be heard the
measured step of the watchman on his solitary
beat; silence hung in air, save as some passer
by raised the question: 'Watchman, what
OF She night:'
1t is to me deeply suggestive and solemn
thing to see man standing guard by night
1t thrilled through me, as at the gate of an
arsenal in Charleston, the question once smote
me: "Who comes thereI' followed by the
sharp command: advance and give the
countersign." Every moral teacher stands
on picket, or patrols the wall as watchman
His work is to sound the alarm; and whether
it be in the first watch, in the second watch.
III the third watch, or in the fourth watch, to
bc vigiant until the daybreak filings it,
'norning glories" of blooming cloud across
the arching trelis of the sky.
The ancienus divided their night into four
parts-the first watch, from to 0; the second,
from 8 to 12; the third, from II to 8; the
fourth, from to 6.
1 speak now of the city in the third watch,
SJr from 12 to o'clock.
| never weary of looking upon the life and
brliancy of the city in the first watch That
is the hour when the stores are closing The
fabOring men, having quilted the scaffolding
and the shop. are on their way home. 1t re-
joiccS me TO give them my seat in the city
car. They have stood and hammered away
all day. Their feet are weary. They are ex-
bausted with the tug of work They are
mostly cheerful With appetites sharpened
VI the swift turner's wheel and the carpen-
toni MILESTONE they seek the evening meal
III ,lo, rs, too, have broken away from the
,o,,rto, On with brain weary of the long
Ii,,, ,,f fc,,,,.as oud the whims of those who
90 n ebonnine, CO. * the face of mother, or
wife and child. The merchants are unhar-
Messing themselves from their anxleues on
their way up the street. The boys that lock
up are heaving away at the shutJ, Fs' shoVlnS
the heavy bolts and taking last loo.< at the
fire to see that all is safe. The streets are
thronged with young men setting out from
the great centers of bargain making.
Let oilers clear the street. and give right of
way to the besweated artisans and merchants.
They have earned their bread, and are now
on their way home to ge5 it.
The lights in full jet hang over 10000
evening repasts-the parents at either end of
the table. the children between. Thank God,
i'who setteth the solitary in families
4 few hours later and all the places of
amusement good and bad, are in full tide.
lovers of art, catalogue in hand, stroll
through the galleries and discuss the pict-
ures. The ballroom is resplendent with the
rich apparel of those who, on either side of
the white, glistening boards, await the signal
from the orchestra. The footlights of the
theatre flash up, the bell rings, and the cur
tain rises, and out from the gorgeous scenery
glide the actors, greeted with the vocifera-
ton of the expectant multitudes. Concert
halls are lifted into enchantment with the
warble of one songstress or swept out on a
sea of tumultuous feeling by the blast of bra
zen Instruments Drawing rooms are filed
with all gracefulness of apparel with all
sweetness of sound, with all splendor of man
ner: mirrors are catching up and multiplying
the scene until it seems as if in infinite corri-
dors there were garlanded groups advancing
md retreatlng.
M, oiV 1i,g wit =
with the moving to of thousands on the great
promcnades. The dashing span, adrip with
The foam of the long country ride, rushes past
as you halt at the curb stone.
Mrth, revelry, beauty, fashion, magnifi-
cence mingle i'll the great metropolitan pict-
nre, until the thinking man goes home to
think more seriously and the praying man to
pray more earnestly
A beautiful and overwhelming thing is the
ritv in the first and second watches of the
night.
ut the clock strikes L. and the third watch
has be- uh'
tho air The slightest sounds cut the night
with such distinctness as to attract your at
tention. The tinkling OF the bell of the street
car in the distance and The baylng of the dog
the stamp of the horse III the next street
The slammng of saloon door; the mc'
roprh of the drunkard: the shrieks of the
steam whistle five miles away-Oh, how sug
restiye. my friends, the third watch of the
night
There are honest men passing up and down
the street. Here is a city missionary who
has been carrying a scuttle of coal to that
moor family in that dark place. Here is an
undertaken going up the steps of building
from which there comes bitter cry, which
indicates that the destroying angel has smit
ten the first born. Here is a minister of re
ligion who has been giving the sacrament tC
a diving Christian. Here is a physician pass
ing along in great haste, the messenger few
steps a head hurrying on to the household.
Nearly all the lights have gone out in tht
dwellings, for it is the third watch OF thu
night That light in the window is the iigh
~f the watcher, for the medicines must be ad
'stered, and the fever must be watched
mn restless tossing off of the coverliC
ana tho 'sted, and the ice must be kept OIL
mus oe - -, and the perpetual praye
Vhe ho' ooAl ,earts soon TO be broken.
mus US, ~ ~ u .,,;y5 ,Ta+c y Of the nighti Wha
1s,'l'1,,'s ", viiI t,o,,obt- Vhole city at restl
Weary arm preparing for l, 80 ,,,,,so1a
hot brain being cooled off; rl ie 'H'i9St. 4.g.i.
relaxed: excited nerves soothed; t. a- V,--S
hair of the octogenarian in thin drifts a. re :
the pillow; fresh fail of flakes on snow alreau,
fallen: childhood with its dimpled hands
thrown out on the pillow, and with every
breath taking in NEW store of fun and frohc
Third watch of the night Gods slumberles
eve will look Let one great wave of refresh
in.- slumber Ioll over the heart of the grea
town, submerging care, and anxiety, am
worriment, aud pain.
Let the city sleep. But, my friends, be no
deceived. There will be thousands to-nigh
who will not sleep at ALL Go up that dark allie
and lie cautious where you tread lest you ia
over the PROSTATE form of a drunkard lyln
on his own doorstep. Look about you, les
you feel the garroter's hug. Look throug